Need algorithm for selecting/choosing from victems by several enemies

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Hello

I want a number of wolves attack a flock of sheep

I wanna make/use an algorithm that makes each wolf select/choose a different sheep to attack than his mates maybe

or let’s say I wanna make something near to real life

any recommendations for this type of AI ?
the place will be almost empty place with little obstacles
I am currently assigning a navMeshAgent on the wolf but I am asking about the process of choosing the destination victem

thanks a a lot

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Hi there, im not going to write actual code, but will explain logic

assume you have some amount of wolves and seeps

  1. Get in array list all your wolves
  2. Get in array list all your shipps
  3. choose randomly any sheep from sheep array
  4. assign it to any random wolf in wolf array
  5. remove that sheep from sheep array
  6. remove that wolf from sheep array
  7. repeat the loop until wolfs or sheeps array size is zero

you can make it even more complex by choosing not a random sheep for a random would, but closing the closest sheep for the closest wolf, so you will have to iterate trough whole array anch check the distance and find the closest one and then, assign that sheep as a target for a wolf and remove them both from the lists as they are already processed itmes